Category: Safe Haven
Hi All, Almost all the blind people I've met are obsessed with recording. Were you, and why is this? I was obsessed with it for liek 4 years, made about 1000 tapes, no joke. I would record everything. EVERYTHING! Me saying absolutely nothing, me eating, phone messages, notees to myself, the radio, my sister screaming at her rats, my parents talking, even things at school if I could sneak my tape recorder in! I even tried to record the toilet flushing without anyone noticing, and playing it on high and low speed! Hehehhee! Caitlin
no I collected rocks and interesting branches that had fallen from trees I was daft about this and my prize rock is a piece of K2! As well as lava from Etna when I think of how old they are the magnitude of all those 1,0000's of years is almost mind blowing.
Nope, not me. The only time I recorded was during class for notes and recording my shopping lists. Thats mainly it. I never felt the need to record tapes with music on them. And I always reused my tapes.
I was a nut about recording over things, I hated doing it, and if a tape got damaged, I had a fit! Hehehe. Then after awhile, I got to love recording over thigns over and over until they got totally messed up. Hehehe. I collected lots of random stuff too, I liked bringing home whatever I found in the sandbox at school lol. Caitlin
well I use to love recording myself when I was a kid, I'd just say silly things, and I would sometimes record my writings, which at 11 years old, were quite silly. Then when I got my first am fm radio cassette recorder, I recorded a lot of songs off the radio, and I never erased the tapes, because I have some songs I might never get again. I use to like to record me and my mom, when she was up to it and would play with me with it.
wonderwoman
I did just the same, Wonderwoman! I would record music, my mom and I, anything. And I used to record stories too. I really bneed to dig out those tapes again and have a listen, because I want to hear my old stories. I used to love telling stories, in dramatic voice, on those tapes ... ehehehe. And the music too, I remember, I would sit for hours, waiting for a certain song to come on teh radio, so I coudl record it, back when I hadn't gotten into CD's yet. Caitlin
I like recordings.
Since i was a child i used to record things. Also when i used to go abroad with my old school to exchanges i used to carry always my tape recorder and record everything. It's like people taking photographs so they can remember things that's what i do with recordings.
Last year i started being interested in birds. I started finding information on the internet about them and collecting sounds but now i want to record my own as well but that won't happen soon i think because i need good quality equipment to do that and it's expensive so i will have to wait for that.
yep I always done loved it. I use to do everything you did CaitCait. my fave thing to do was to read books on to tape. I'd always imagine I was narrating a talking book for the library! :) and now I love digital recording as well :)
hehehehe I never brought my tape recorder to school but I did do a lot of the things mentioned on here. I would always record songs off the radio, myself singing, myself telling stories, and I even did the whole talking book immitation!!! "This book contains up to 4 sides per cassette. Side 1," I have 3 other blind sybblings and we still record ourselves playacting and making movies. It's a lot of fun!!! My sited sybblings love recording us all play karaoke and acting so we always had lots of fun together!!! I was always the nasty judge like Simon and giving them low points so no one would win! heheheheh So yay for recording!!!
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I've always liked recording, but I wasn't much into just taping whatever. There had to be a purpose. Now, I get paid to push the record button!
Yup, I was into recording when I was a kid. I wouldn't record just anything, but if we had a family reunion or party, there I was with a tape recorder. And before I got into CD's, I was always recording music.
Actually, some of the stuff I used to record came in handy. A few years ago, my great-grandmother died, and we couldn't find any recordings of her until I broke out the old family reunion tapes. My aunt asked me if she could have them, so I still need to get around to sending them to her.
Hey all, I loved recording as a kid and did it constantly recording everything. I kept this up through high school. I just wish I had mroe of my tapes. I still record nowadays although only for special things. i like to keep audio journals of vecations so I do a lot of recording then edit it down and keep the finished copy. I in the process of creating just such a tape from my recent guide dog training. i just wish I had the equipment to do a goodd job of editing or even better to put it on computer. As someone said its like photographs for me
There's got to be a way to transfer taped recording onto a computer. I've heard that there is, but I don't know if that's true or not. I think I need to check into that.
I used to record stuff when I was younger also, usually it was either songs from the radio or when me and my brothers and/or neighbors and/or cousins would act silly. Once in awhile, I'd record myself explaining things as if I were a teacher or doing my own show. I also record and keep recordings of people I probably wouldn't meet again (like taking pictures as y'all have put it). So I have several old tapes and sometimes like to listen to the people I've recorded and the songs I had used to like but would not be much into today. *smiles*
Leilani
Wow. I ghave never really been in to recording. Me and tapes never got along. hhehehe. But now that I have Audacity on the computer, I record myself playing the violin, or my friends and I singing. Now that CD's are so popular, I am trying to compile all of my work on to a CD and pass it on for fun.
I've been in to recording for as long as I can remember.
When I was up at the Carroll Center for the blind I got a digital recorder, and recorded my Room mates and I doing strange tings such as breaking recordible cds that don't burn. I also recorded the teachers as well.
I'll eventually post them on my site www.shaunnet.dyndns.org but for now they're on my computer or digital recorder, and will stay there.
That's cool. I've got one of those, but can't get the mic to work.
Can you show me how? cAll me on skype or i m me on msn or aim.
I'll type to you later.
Shaun a.k.a. src333 The guy who crashes everything!
no. i've never really liked recording! i don't see the need
I use to be really in to it, and was trying to get recorders. I got over it though. Once I promised to record a book for someone. I think it was
Number The Stars
I tried my best at it, but wasn't good, is still pretty bad, but you know, at least I don't read monotone!
I used to record everything when I was little. I still have a lot of those tapes somewhere. I should try to find them. No, wait, that would be embarrassing. :d
Oh man. I was a recording freak when I was younger. I recorded myself and my sister/cousins playing all the retarded games we made up, myself singing and talking and teling stories, I used to love reading books and recording myself, I exchanged recorded tapes back and forth in the mail as a kind of pen pal thing for a while ... it went on and on. I had a talk show and a soap opera when I was around six, and I was every character, and I used to play school and carry the tape recorder around to random meals and stuff just to record my family. The tapes have all been buried in boxes somewhere around the house now, but I would love to dig them out and listen. Lol. Now I look at it as another poster said, my form of photo albums. I just recently got a cheapy sort of digital voice recorder so I can take it places and record when I feel it's important enough to warrant documenting.
I'm glad i can record on my Victor Reader Stream. Unfortunately, it only records in mono. needa pair of binaural microphones, but that's for another topic in another board.
Yep, used to do it all the time here too. Mainly family stuff though, and the odd pen-pal tape which I no longer do. Now I just podcast occasionally with the olympus ds30 and gold wave. It's a lot of fun.
i used to record myself all the time. I never know why. i hate to hear myself. I used to take a tape recorder to the playground and record recess. It was quite fun. I also sat by the radio, hoping for the song I want to come on, so I can make an entire tape to listen to later. Now i have a DS 30 to record class lectures. Boring. I will have to come up with some creative uses for it during the year.
I absolutely can't stand listning to myself. *shudders* I just sit there going, "God, do I really sound like that?"
yeah. I love recording. I always have. Most of my recordings are on micro cassette. I still know where most of the tapes are. I certainly went through several recorders. Now I'm planning to buy the Sony PCMD50.
I've always been in to recording, too. Any time I went anywhere, any sort of family get together, anything imaginable, i'd record. I recorded a lot of things that happened at the school for the blind while I was there. Somehow though, I've lost most of the tapes over the years. Yes, you can make mp3 files of tapes if you have a tape player hooked up to your computer. I now have the Edirol R-1, and I love it. It records in stereo, no tape hiss, and the card is so small. That was the best 3 or 400 bucks I ever spent, I think.
I loved recording stories i would make up and act out. Even stories about movies like The Little Mermaid and Lilo and Stitch. Also TV Shows like Charmed and TBAA. I still record them til this day. It was a lot of fun and still is! I also love recording stories about TLM.
Like someone said earlier, I think of recording like some people think of photo albums. when I was a little kid, I was absolutely obsessed. now, of course, I don't record absolutely everything, but I record anything and everything I think will be nostalgic later on.
when I was younger I recorded a lot of stuff, songs I heard on the radio, or me playing the clarinet or piano, or just me talking, and other silly stuff. I lost all of the tapes over the years though. Now I only really record class lectures using my victor stream.
Yeah, I use to be the same way; in fact, I sometimes still am. I don't necessarily like recording lectures during class (but I do it anyway only because I have to), and I never liked recording myself talk, unless there were other people around me. But sometimes, if I'm around a group of people who are having an interesting conversation, or just acting hilariously stupid, I will record it, just to make sure I have something to make me laugh later on in life. :p
yeah, listening to those old tapes would be painful and embarrassing, and I'd have to run out of the room screaming help me. they were pretty darn stupid, I wouldn't make any sense at all. I'd go back and shake myself or something and say get real kid. you're going to be too ashamed.